This evening I’ve got several related questions for you.
I know there are some among us who do not drink carbonated beverages, but for the rest of us, they can be a refreshing drink. Some here might even be what one could call psychologically addicted to them, perhaps even physically addicted to various components of them.
- Where you grew up, what did folks call carbonated soft drinks as a general type of beverage? Soda? Pop? Soda pop? Coke? Soft drinks? Something else?
- Were you allowed to drink it?
- Do you prefer diet or regular?
- What’s your favorite cola?
- What’s your overall favorite?
I’ll start.
- We grew up calling it pop. (Upstate NY) When I went off to college, I learned to call it soda, and I still do.
- We were only allowed to have it for special occasions when we were small, but by the time we were teenagers, my Mom was buying 2 liter bottles of (mostly) house brand sodas, and we could have it anytime we wanted. However, she would say, “Remember, that’s all we have until payday. You might want to make it last.”
- I find regular sodas to be way too sweet, so stick to diet.
- My favorite cola was Diet Cherry Coke. However, they discontinued it so they could switch in their new “millennial” flavors. Which all suck. (Millennials are ruining everything! And they need to get off my lawn while doing so!) So, now I drink Coca-Cola Cherry Zero. And I absolutely will not drink Pepsi. It’s disgusting. Fight me!
- Favorite soda of all time: my grandfather’s homemade root beer.
Your turn!
1. Pop
2. Very rarely, and not a whole can. That began to change when the soccer team started giving out cans after the game.
3. Regular
4. Coca-cola
5. Braum’s cherry limeade.
Braum’s Cherry Limeade is Nectar of the Gods.
Thank you for bringing back the memories. Haven’t lived in Oklahoma or other Braums bearing states for over 20 years.
~sniff~
My mom bought my siblings store-brand, and Diet Coke for herself. And woe betide anybody who drank her soda.
1. Soda, though when we moved up to NH, I heard some old timers call it “tonic”.
2. Yes, regularly. As an adult, however, quite rarely.
3. Regular.
4. Old Coke.
5. A tie between Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray or Moxie – preference depending on what I’m eating.
1. Pop – also upstate NY. Changed to soda when in
RomeNYC.2. As much as I wanted.
3. I would consider diet but no matter how they try to improve it, it still tastes like shit.
4. Not a big cola fan.
5. I do the Dew. Regularly.
1) Pop – Ohio
2) I was, my mom actually had a small bottle of Coca Cola Syrup in the medicine cabinet (it was supposed to settle your stomach)
3) Diet is a terrible monstrosity that tastes wrong.
4) Cola, I don’t really drink it anymore. I never chose a side in the cola wars.
5) Several of the Dry Soda flavors are amazing, and for ginger beers I have found Jamaica’s Finest Hot Hot Hot Ginger Beer to be the best (I’m still tweaking my home made recipe… which reminds me it’s almost time to try a new 1 gallon batch out).
1. Soda.
2. Yes.
3. Either, but sticking to diet lately.
4. Mr. Pibb > Dr. Pepper (fight me)
5. Meh.
Soda
Yes
Both (Shut up, I liked TAB)
Dr. Pepper
A Treat cream soda or sarsaparilla
Though I haven’t had any soda in years. I don’t even miss it.
To add, this is my go to for carbonated stuff now : https://www.lacroixwater.com/flavors/
No sugars.
1: Soda. ‘Pop’ is a quick strike with a fist, not a beverage.
2: Yes.
3: Diet, Regular tastes like syrup to me.
4: Cola? Restricted to colas, Diet Coke
5: Diet Mountain Dew.
I grew up Upstate New York, and no one called it Pop… you must be from Western New York.
Now you’re talking to yourself? Must be the diet “soda” making you insane.
Shut up, I get more sensible replies that way!
It’s all that aspartame.
Rochester is not unambiguously anywhere so we usually just called it “Upstate”. It’s not WNY – that’s Buffalo.
You were definately West.
/Syracuse born and raised.
1. Upper Midwest; it’s pop.
2. Yes. We seldom had it in the house, but we were never denied it when out and about.
3. Regular. Diet is from the devil.
4. Coca-Cola is the only cola
5. Coca-Cola.
Unhinged Protesters Try to Shut Down Ben Shapiro at Ohio State – Fleccas
Idk why I am always so surprised at the abject, inexcusable (but likely deliberate, which makes it worse) ignorance of people.
Some people love drama. I think both sides thrive on it.
1. Pop – grew up in MN
2. yes, parents didn’t buy it but we could with
our $.
3. Never diet
4. RC as a kid, but HEB pure cane sugar Cola now.
5. Throwback Mountain Dew. I don’t consume High Fructose Corn Syrup if it can be avoided.
Mountain Dew. What was the question?
They assked “Are you paying attention?”
*hands playa an adderall*
No need. I have Mountain Dew.
I apologize if this subject has already been breached but how are you and JIMB doing? I hope you guys evaded the fires with no harm to yourselves, family, or property.
My aunt and uncle always drank Mt Dew. They were incredibly heavy chain smokers and would ash in the can after they finished. Of course, as a child I drank from one of those cans. I never cared for Mt Dew again.
Heh my mom did that in her empty Diet Coke bottles. Thankfully, one taste of that shit and there was no chance of me ever willing to take another sip.
Amen to Mountain Dew.
*Narrows gaze*
1. Florida – soda
2. Breakfast lunch & dinner
3. Regular on the rare occasion I drink it.
4. Coca-cola products
5 cherry coke
1)Soda
2)We drank a fair bit growing up, usually Coke (or Coke Classic for the latter half of my childhood)
3)As I’m a fat bastard diabetic, I drink nothing but diet now. As I’m a cheapskate, Kroger brand Cola Oh is my usual choice
4)Favorite cola was Vanilla Coke Zero. People have told me they still make it, but I haven’t seen it in years
5)Favorite soft drink of any kind is Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale, which is hard to find outside of the deep south. It’s damned spicy and delicious.
Being as I’m such a woke multicultural, I grew up hearing it called both pop and soda. It was soda when I lived out west and pop in the midwest.
Anyone know why they called it pop in the midwest and east? Hint: the answer it not ‘stupid rednecks’.
Stupid city dwellers?
There really is a reason. A real one.
Oops, I failed proper etiquette and did not answer all the questions.
1. Both soda and pop, depending on where I lived at the time.
2. Yes. No one was woke back then. And have you ever seen the pyramid diet? I’m pretty sure pop is way up high.
3. Diet sucks.
4. I don’t drink the stuff today. But it was Pepsi when I was a kid.
5. Don’t drink it.
If I could be so bold, I’d like to add a couple related questions:
1. Do you like floats (glass of pop with a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream)?
2. What is the best pop for floats?
Mine are:
1. Yes, but I haven’t had one for many years
2. It’s a toss-up between A&W and Coke.
Why is this a reply?!?!?! Ugh. I’m gonna re-post it below.
Here, let me help…
Do you like movies about gladiators?
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Start from there and see what happens.
I’m down for a good float.
You should try a Moxie float.
I do need to expand my float horizons. I’ll seek out some Moxie.
No don’t. No human being in the history of existence has liked Moxie. It’s always been a hoax, a cruel joke to play on newbies. HM’s recommendation of Moxie is just an extension of his liking.
Because it’s you, I assume that’s a euphemism.
We all float down here.
A delicious euphemism.
I’m at dinner. Will eye bleach be required if I click the link?
I agree with Nicholas Nassim Taleb in that life is all about management of risk.
I was expecting the worst. That was a pleasant surprise.
Been years since I’ve had one, but try a “purple cow” – Welchs Grape with vanilla ice cream.
I really like Welch’s Grape. I’ll have to give that a try sometime.
Where you grew up, what did folks call carbonated soft drinks as a general type of beverage? Soda? Pop? Soda pop? Coke? Soft drinks? Something else?
I grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and I don’t remember there being a “dominant” word for pop/soda/phosphate/soft drink/whatever.
Were you allowed to drink it?
Too much.
Do you prefer diet or regular?
I actually get splitting, “thunderclap” headaches from any diet drink sweetened with phenylalanine (i.e., aspartame). I avoid.
What’s your favorite cola?
Plain cola is still Coke Classic. Folks in the ‘States are spoiled by all the cola choices they have there, many of which (like Cherry Coke) either never took off here or are offered seasonally only. Of course Pepsi was always available where I grew up, plus “Pepsi” was a nickname for a Quebecois, so we ordered those a lot to screw with ’em. 😉
What’s your overall favorite?
My tastes have, predictably, evolved away from the overly-sweet drinks of my “yute.” My favourite soda-based drink now is Fentiman’s Rose Lemonade with a good gin (Gin Mare, ferinstance) plus a dash of rose water to amp up the flavour/scent and a thin wedge of lime. Awesome on a hot summer day.
1. Soda-pop
2. Drank plenty then, usually in the house.
3. Regular on the rare occasion that I have one
4. Coke or Dr. Pepper
5. Root Beer, A&W or Dad’s
I’m still a sucker for 7-up when I’m sick.
I love 7-UP for a cold.
1. Coke
2. Yes. It wasn’t a fixture, but it wasn’t forbidden.
3. Diet
4. Pepsi
5. Guilty pleasure: Mountain Dew. I love ginger. Why not ginger ale? Well, because it doesn’t taste like Mountain Dew, though I like it just fine.
1. We called it Soda or Coke.
2. Yep, I was.
3. I prefer regular.
4. I prefer Coca-Cola. Cherry Vanilla Cola is my favorite flavor.
5. My favorite is Stewart’s Orange’n Cream Soda. Thank you trips to Cracker Barrel for getting me into that glorious ambrosia.
“Pop”
Or just Coke to refer to any cola beverage
1) pop – MI
2) didn’t have it much but if it was available it was allowed
3) Regular. I wil try the zero versions of things but they are full of sadness in place of calories
4) Pepsi
5) Pepsi Throwback. Anything with cane sugar really
Anyone remember Cream Soda? That was really popular when I was a kid. And Vernor’s ginger ale, that stuff was sublime.
BLECH!
My step-dad loved the stuff; I thought it was noxious.
You like Cel-Ray but not cream soda? ((You)) are a monster. I rescinded one of your parentheses.
Considering my mixed-parentage, that’s fair.
‘My step-dad loved the stuff; I thought it was noxious.’
Damn your heathen soul.
I’m willing to consider that he just bought shitty cream soda.
You are on your way to earning back that third parenthese.
The only cream soda I ever saw growing up was A&W. They still sell it around here.
Same, that was the only one I saw back when I lived in the States.
Cream soda? A Treat or gtfo.
Damn, you people live sheltered lives. Cream Soda is all over the place here, not to mention the giant candy store near me has an entire two aisles of pop flavors. They’ve got almost anything you want including the old retro flavors.
Here’s a mop, you may want to clean that up before the ants swarm too much.
“Do you want ants? ‘Cause this is how you get ants!”
My dad drinks Vernor’s, says it reminds him of his grandparents. And it just a ginger soda, not a ginger ale.
If you ever see Weber’s root beer — DRINK IT!
If I could be so bold, I’d like to add a couple related questions:
1. Do you like floats (glass of pop with a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream)?
2. What is the best pop for floats?
Mine are:
1. Yes, but I haven’t had one for many years
2. It’s a toss-up between A&W and Coke.
Why are you trying to balance ice cream on a verb?
Oh, I’m sorry…are you talking to me?
Is there anyone else here, Tulpa?
Your question contains too much flavor. You triggered UCS.
Yes, I love floats. I only have them once or twice a year. Vanilla ice cream in root beer is great. You might also try coffee ice cream.
OMG coffee ice cream is manna.
Damn straight.
for floats… 2. It’s a toss-up between A&W and Coke.
Though I’d rather have a chocolate malt, if I still ate that much sugar.
1. I LOVE Floats. Those always made younger me happy.
2. Same as you. Either A&W or Coke.
Coffee.
If, instead of pop, you floated it on soda, I’d go with A&W Root Beer.
Floats are gross. Have one or the other.
If you want to taste gross, try a Miller Lite float.
*shudders*
Why do you hate Ice Cream?
Show us on the doll where the Ben and Jerry touched you.
In my defense, we were 16…and drunk.
That’s a good excuse. Also acceptable, hallucinations.
That sounds terrible, but I’ve had good floats involving a good red ale or stout. I bet Sweet Baby Jesus! would do well to be cut with a good vanilla ice cream.
Yes, a peach float from Braum’s, which is Braum’s peach ice cream and Coke. Haven’t had it in…years? Decades? Something like that.
Hell, I love a DQ Coke float.
I remember being about 5 years old and my brother and I were poured a short glass of Dad’s Old-Fashioned by the kind lady next door, Mrs Emerson. I had never tasted anything so good. It was cold and it was wonderful. I had to run home and tell my Mom about this great treat we’d had and asked and hoped that we could get some at our house. I’m guessing it was a long time before we had any of our own in our house. Could have been because of sugar rationing during the war that not much pop was being made. Real reason probably ’cause of finances.
Now I drink maybe 1 can a year, it was better when it was rare and hard (for us kids, at least) to get.
I can’t understand why any adult male would drink a cola when you can have coffee or beer instead.
Coffee has too much caffiene, and beer too much alcohol?
There are times when these are not going to help.
Coffee or whiskey, but it’s a minor quibble.
Do they not have martini’s in Japan?
They put mayo on pizza, I’m afraid what they would put in a martini.
Eye of Martin.
The pizza is terrible here. The martinis, as with most mixed drinks, are excellent. They take the attention to detail and presentation elements of the tea ceremony and apply it to bar tending. Even mid range bars go the extra mile.
Example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tUIIcqYVCsg
It’s the peculiar combination of caffeine, sugar, phosphoric/carbonic acid and ice-coldness that gives you a cheap boost, slakes your thirst, lowers your body’s core temperature and — I swear to God — cuts the dust in your throat that I still find attractive. Beer’s a close second as long as it’s a good summer beer, but coffee’s a distant third.
Several of the breweries in my neck of the woods also make a (non-alcoholic) root beer for the kids (or some adults). One of them has a good six or seven different flavors of their own brewed pop.
Root beer seems to be a common NA choice at breweries. I’ve also seen it around here.
Do they also do growler fills of it for ~$5 (with the warning that the growler will be unsuitable for beer after that)?
Yes, my nephews have at least one growler already.
I have two half-growlers that are dedicated to root beer for the missus. (she’s not a beer drinker). When she drinks all her root beer, I have to make the sacrifice of going to the brewery to fill them for her. Love is hard sometimes.
Remember the A&W traffic cones? They don’t still have those anywhere do they?
Pardon my naive question but is real root beer actually brewed in some way?
It is. Although you can go simple and buy root beer concentrate these days. Same thing with Ginger beer/ale and most of the other old school flavored pops.
Next time I’m in Cleveland we need to meet up. I have never had brewed root beer.
Sure thing, my handle at to mail of Google will reach me. Although, if you want to do it yourself, I wouldn’t follow the recipe provided in my link. I grabbed it as a source for the first half, then read her dangerous (as in bottle bomb) recipe. Root beer’s not my favorite, but I could adjust her recipe to be a safe one if anyone is interested.
I’ll be the guy the guy at the bar addressing you as Meester Garibaldi.
Whew… thankfully I have shorter (and less) hair, and a beard.
1. Both. Mostly pop.
2. Rarely. Mom was a health food chick before it was cool.
3. Prefer regular but usually go diet on the rare occasion I have one.
4. Coke (the pause that refreshes)
5. Today? NA When I was small? Tahitian Treat!
I know there are some among us who do not drink carbonated beverages, but for the rest of us, they can be a refreshing drink. Some here might even be what one could call psychologically addicted to them
I am addicted to carbonated water, aka seltzer (w/lime) and it is 2 fiddy a twelve pack. Well was, the 10 months on sale ended and now it is 3 clams. I don’t really remember what we called soda when I was a kid. I think soda. I drink diet coke or pepsi on occasion over a sugar packed coke or pepsi. They are too sweet unless mixed with rum. We never had it in our house when I was a kid but drank a boat load of Mtn Dew when I got old enough to buy it myself. Mtn Dew and a Reeses cup gives me a flash back to high school.
Cheap beer and flavorless soda? Are you trying to take UCS’s job?
Needs more driving gloves.
When you wake up thirsty and slam a seltzer if is as refreshing as …….(insert something really refreshing)
I think carbonated water quenches thirst better than flat water.
Agreed. Especially when you’ve been working in dusty conditions.
Ditto – but I have to have some sugar content (not necessarily commercial sodapop amounts), otherwise I find it undrinkable.
Sugar water you say?
Flat water is the UCS of water. Carbonated water has pizazz and personality. It reaches out and grabs your mother fucking leg!
You sold me
1. My Pops and his Pops used to call pop ‘pop’, most of the rest of the population also called it ‘pop’.
2. Pops would let me have a pop as long as I hadn’t given him a reason to give me a pop.
3 I prefer V8
4 Pepsi cola soda pop
5 This question confuses me, how is it different than #4?
re: 4 & 5 confusion. Not all sodas (pops) are colas.
Now I’m really confused, whats the distinguishing difference?
Colas have cola extract in them; it’s bitter and gives them their “bite”. And Clear Pepsi notwithstanding, they are dark in color.
I’ll be damned, so a soda can be a cola but a cola isn’t a soda? I never knew. That has got to be one of the most benign things I have ever learned here. Good stuff.
No; All cola’s are soda-pops, not all soda-pops are colas.
And I’m sure someone can find some technical way to prove that wrong, I am using the terms “soda-pop” and “cola” in the most common usage of them.
How the mighty have fallen.
Mark Hamill
✔
@HamillHimself
For centuries, men have had their chance to rule government with middling-to-poor results. Who’s ready to let women take charge completely? Just women. I know I am.
A woman took charge of Star Wars. Look how that turned out. (i.e. the 2.5hr abortion of SW that is TLJ)
He’s got some brain paracites that are nibbling on neurons.
Probably got it from drinking raw blue milk
The comments are encouraging
I’m sure he means female leaders like Margarte Thatcher right?
Margaret*
Someone isn’t getting any.
Remember when science fiction explored concepts like, what happens when you put one group of people in power over another group of people?
Sadly Dr. Zimbardo is now an anti-porn advocate.
Less glib thoughts on the whole “women should lead us” movement (Hamill is hardly the first person who I’ve seen/heard say this)
1. I’ve got no problem with women in leadership (government, business, etc.)
2. However, I’ve seen no evidence whatsoever that women are any better at it than men, on average
3. Putting people in power because of sex, race, or other irrelevant characteristics will lead to less competent people being put in charge of more competent people, which breeds resentment
4. Assuming we’re talking about government, disenfranchising men will have no better results than disenfranchising any other group ever has
People love throwing the “draft dodger” epithet at male politicians, yet I don’t remember Hillary being called one. If you get out of slavery, uh, I mean conscription on legal technicalities, then by their standards that makes you a draft dodger.
I am reminded of An article on the evidence that there would not be an improvement.
It’s like you want to treat people as individuals and judge them on their merits. You just made Amanda Marcotte cry.
That’s just crazy talk, the whole idea of merit was invented to keep people down!
Geez, you guys are assholes. If a dude wants to fly his FemDom 24/7 lifestyle freak flag in public, let him get his freak on.
I mean, Hamill doesn’t raise an eyebrow at my DDLG posts. Live and let live, I say.
Hey man, I was only asking about how he would feel about Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day. Innocent stuff, really.
Suddenly Iron Maggie story by SugarFree flashed through my mind like an injection of sulfuric acid. It BURNS!
Let it flow through you. Let it burn, melt, and reshape you.
They would come up with a half baked plan and refuse to tell anyone what it is?
‘1. Where you grew up, what did folks call carbonated soft drinks as a general type of beverage? Soda? Pop? Soda pop? Coke? Soft drinks? Something else?
2. Were you allowed to drink it?
3. Do you prefer diet or regular?
4. What’s your favorite cola?
5. What’s your overall favorite?’
The Midwest by way of west of the Mississippi it is generally refer to it as pop as far I can tell. Around the age of thirty I began to call it soda. Don’t ask me why.
Yes.
Regular.
Coca-Cola.
Red cream soda.
Nowadays I rarely drink soda. Maybe 2-3 times a month and that’s usually because I’m at my buddy’s house for the Chiefs game but ran out of beer and he only drinks Pepsi. And I’m not exaggerating. No water, milk, beer, fruit juice, you name it, fill in the blanks. Coincidentally, he needed all of his teeth pulled and got a complete set of dentures before the age of thirty-six.
T
Soda or Soda Pop.
Shasta diet soda because my parents were thrifty. Diet Shasta Cola was my go to. I also drank Fresca(how about a Fresca?!?) and Tab. When I got to drink the “good stuff”, it was Diet Pepsi.
I’ve probably had three sodas in the last 25 years.
Given what you had to deal with growing up, I’m not surprised.
Right? Holy shit.
When I got to a point where I could drink Diet Pepsi on a regular basis, I pounded that shit.
My grandmother drank Fresca. It’s weird, I always hated it, except when I went to her house. It was always delicious there. I had one a few years ago out of nostalgia for her. It was enjoyable . . . once.
It was my mother’s favorite. On a hot summer day after playing outside, a big swig could make your whole body shiver. I could never finish a whole one.
1. Pop
2. Yes
3. Diet
4. Diet Coke
5. Diet Coke
Where you grew up, what did folks call carbonated soft drinks as a general type of beverage? Soda? Pop? Soda pop? Coke? Soft drinks? Something else?
Here in southwest Ohio, most people called it pop, although my parents (originally from California) called it soda. I still call it soda.
Were you allowed to drink it?
Yes, but my mom would go on a rant about my dental health. My dad didn’t care as long as you didn’t drink the last of it. You could drink 11 cans from a 12-pack as soon as he comes home from the grocery store, and he wouldn’t care, but the second you drank that last can, it was the Spanish Inquisition. “You drank all the soda??” Yes dad, someone had to drink the last of it. It doesn’t exist in infinite supply.
Do you prefer diet or regular?
Regular. Any kind of artificial sweetener leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
What’s your favorite cola?
Coca-Cola, the Mexican kind with real sugar. And I only have one of those every few months.
What’s your overall favorite?
Reed’s Ginger Beer, “extra hot” or whatever the most intense version is. It’s kind of like ginger ale, but less sugary and with more of a gingery punch. It’s also awesome mixed with dark rum.
1. Soda
2. No. Never had it in the house. Mom was a health nut. I only had it somewhere else.
3. Regular.
4. Coke made with sugar.
5. Dr. Brown’s Cream Soda.
1. Pop
2. Yes but my parents rarely bought it. We got a free pop from the concession stand after every little league baseball game.
3. Regular… Anything diet is piss water
4. I go back and forth between Coke and Pepsi
5. Shasta grape… Every fourth of July we would buy a variety of Shasta pops. The grocery store sold them by the can. We would fill a cooler go out to my uncle’s farm and blow stuff up like good Americans. I have fond memories of drinking more than my fill of Shasta grape with blackened hands.
Where you grew up, what did folks call carbonated soft drinks as a general type of beverage? Soda? Pop? Soda pop? Coke? Soft drinks? Something else?
Pop, but Soda was a close second.
Were you allowed to drink it?
It was an occasional treat.
Do you prefer diet or regular?
Usually regular, but my pop of choice is a diet one.
What’s your favorite cola?
Coke Zero Cherry
What’s your overall favorite?
A good Cream Soda from a small place. I don’t have any one favorite. I want to try to make root beer.
1) Soda for the first 10 years ( relatives in Hawaii, including my older “cool” cousin), then by 5th grade it was pop in Ohio, and Coke when I visited the Atlanta relatives ( aunt worked for Coca-Cola for 30 years).
2) limited quantity of Sprite by age 5, full cans by 8, and my best friend’s parents let us have one Coke during sleepovers, because their 95 lbs Golden Retriever ( not at all fat, just from a litter of the Genus Book record holders) would become impatient, and lay on top of us on their futon so he could steal the sausage their cat allowed him, so we would be up by 9:30 no matter what. Too much pop in my teens.
3) Zero Sugar
4) At this point l, I drink Pepsi Zero Sugar and the occasional Sprite or IBC root beer, and Oscar Blues Root Beer.
5) IBC Root Beer
*high fives spqr*
Yass! Another IBC lover!! Best root beer evah
A bit off topic, I want to thank Nephilium and Mexican Sharpshooter for expanding my beer horizons. I’m at a conference and out to dinner at a restaurant with a beer wall. I just tried a Gose and a Kolsh for the first time. It wouldn’t have happened without the discussions I’ve read on this site about various beers.
Not a problem at all, I hope you enjoyed them.
The Gose was a surprise. It was quite citrus-y. Not too much but more than I expected. The Kolsh was good. I’m finishing with a hefeweisen.
Goses are more a summer thing for me. I can drink kolsch year round though. Do you remember which ones you tried?
Sierra Nevada Otra Vez Gose and Manestay Kolsh. I can easily see why the Gose is your summer beer.
The regular Otra Vez or the Lime and Agava version released this year (they also did a rum barrel aged one, which was really good)? I haven’t had the Manestay, so I can’t comment on that one.
I’m not positive but I think the regular Otra Vez. I drank it in a restaurant with a beer wall (which was a new experience for me.) Finished with a Shotgun Betty hefeweisen and Sam Adam’s Octoberfest.
Is this anything like Dogfish Head Seaquench? That’s awesome.
Very similar, both work much better as summer drinks too. Looks like they’ve also released a grapefruit and cactus variant as well.
Speaking of beer, I just got a kegging setup and put my homebrew into it. I’ve been fighting foam over the last couple days until I read something about “balancing the keg”. Well, I had a blindspot, and balancing was the blindspot. The folks who sold me the kegging kid included a fountain that directly connects to the keg, resulting in a very unbalanced keg at normal carbonating pressures… just dialed it down to 3psi to compensate for the lack of backpressure, and hell yeah that’s good beer!!!
Every system has all sorts of dialing in to learn the tricks to it. You can go blind reading all of the calculations people do based on beer line lengths and diameters, or you just spend some time tweaking your system until you learn what PSI and temperature work best for you. If you don’t have one, I highly recommend picking up a line cleaning kit. I generally do it after any massive style change (stout to kolsch for example) or after every two kegs at a minimum.
1. Soda but usually Coke
2. Every damn day
3. Diet sodas are the work of the debbil
4. Mexican Coke in the glass bottle
5. Same
For the record, I generally hate soda now. It’s too sweet.
^This. Wheat tea, green tea, coffee, water, beer, whiskey etc. Soda is down on the list between bong water and fecal leakage.
Your bong water and fecal leakage must be delicious.
-1 Olestra.
My bong water is fecal leakage.
All of those have different applications. I drink soda either to quench my thirst or thin out my vodka. I would never consider drinking tea or coffee to quench my thirst. Beer or wine is best with meals. Etc.
What about bong water and fecal leakage?
You’d probably have to throw some sugar into it.
Still researching.
1. Both, I think I usually said soda, but it never made much difference to me.
2. Sometimes we had it, always off brand. The neighbors had it all the time.
3. Regular
4. Never care for cola
5. I always liked Sprite as a kid. Then I moved to Dr Pepper. Now, on the rare occasion that I have one, it’s usually a Root Beer. About once a years I have an Orange Soda
Vernor’s ginger ale + Crown Royal is bae, ya
1. Soda or Soft Drinks. I remember being in kindergarten and sick at a field day. My mom was there and gong to take me home. The teacher’s assistant talked me into staying because we were going to have a party with “Coke”. It ended up being only generic orange and grape soda. It turned out she’s one of those people that calls all soft drinks coke. I’ve never forgiven her.
2.Yes
3.If I’m drinking soda these days, it’s usually during a free period, so regular.
4.Royal Crown
5.The best soda ever was Citra, but they don’t make it anymore. Root beer is my usual choice (best are Filbert’s, then Sprecher’s), but I also enjoy 7up or mango Jarritos.
I still miss OK soda.
I am Gen-X, hear me roar!
Do you mean Crown Royal (RC cola)?
Ignore me. I’m mixing whiskey and soda up?
My parents stocked the fridge with hippie bullshit like Hansens Mandarin Orange and Calistoga Sparkling Fruit Juice. Basically, anything that you can find at Trader Joe’s.
Did you call CPS?
For those of you concerned about dental health:
don’t bathe your teeth in soda. Use a straw, and rinse and brush afterward. Chew xylitol gum.
I’ve had a sugary soda almost every day of my adult life, and no cavities.
Oh, and use MI Plus paste. It can reverse minor damage to your enamel.
my one genetic gift is exceptionally hard teeth that are impervious to cavities. My dentist explained it to me once but I dont remember exactly how it works now.
IANAD but yeah there’s gotta be something genetic going on there. My teeth are the opposite. Complete shit since childhood.
It mostly has to do with the elemental calcium available in your saliva.
Your tooth enamel is in a constant state of buildup and breakdown.
It’s one of the reasons that dry mouth can cause cavities so quickly.
Deep Purple had their first performance here in 50 years. Too bad I just found out.
They haven’t been the same since Tommy Bolin.
Do they sound the same? NO,NO,NO!
NO,NO,NO, it’s just a game….
Misread that. 50 years since they formed. Still would’ve liked to have seen it.
They haven’t been to Japan since 1978?
My bad. I’m sure they’ve been here many times over the years. I’m not so good at da readin stuff.
I love Deep Purple. I still give them some jukebox love when I’m out and about.
I grew up dirt poor with hippie parents. They drank Beer and VO, so could’nt afford much in the way of beverages for the kids. We often had kool-aid made from powder and lemonade mixes. It’s not that we weren’t allowed, they just didn’t buy it much.
Coke was almost universal for sodas. You could order a “Coke” and servers would ask “What kind?” You could answer “7-up” or “orange.”
Diet coke is a form of rat poison, right?
I drank coke flavored coke (in the form of “big gulps” from 7-11) alot when I was in my twenties because I could buy it for myself, and ordering water reminded me of my humble beginnings. I also would drink a good amount of horchata. Now, I drink beer and glenfiddich, the older the better (18 y/o at present)
I’d guess my favorite coke flavor now is Mexican Coke. It still has actual sugar as opposed to hfcs. You can taste the difference. They sell it by the litro.
Horchata is nice in a cup of hot cocoa.
I had a horchata latte once that impressed me.
1 Beer
2 As much as possible
3 cold
4 Old style
5 Doppelbock.. Germany
Now we’re talking.
1. Coke for colas, I think soda was common for cola and non-cola beverages alike.
2. Yes
3. Regular. I realized about 15 years ago that all that sugar was not good for me, so I tried switching to diet, but it tasted weird so I stopped drinking soda completely.
4. Coke
5. Dr. Pepper when I was young, now I would probably go with a root beer.
1. I grew up in the Mid-Atlantic, so “soda” was the word
2. We could have it as kids, but not every day
3. I prefer regular, by far, although some of the modern zero- and low-calorie stuff isn’t as bad as “Diet” sodas
4. I like Pepsi better, but Coca-Cola isn’t that far behind
5. My favorite is Dr. Pepper
We called it by brand name or generally pop. We couldn’t afford pop so only for special occasions. If I sat still while my dad gave me my army buzz cut. I was rewarded my a whole bottle of Pepsi to myself. Pepsi has always been my favorite but I seldom ever drink pop and haven’t for years so can’t tell you the last time I had a pepsi. I will occasionally have a sprite zero with pizza or with popcorn for a sweet-salty combo or even more rarely as a mixer for a drink. I do the sprite zero because I prefer the diet version of the uncolas to the diet colas which taste off to me and also because I don’t usually do caffeine in the evening.
Yeah, amazing how soda-pop was something of a “luxury” to a lot of us growing up… the country as a whole is unimaginably richer now than I remember even in the 80s.
Yeah, mom bought carnation powdered milk. I remember the first time I was offered real milk and I was lile why would I want milk? I ended up tasting it and was like what is this wonderful stuff. We also were well aware when boxed Mac n cheese went on sale.
Like
I grew up more on Kool Aid (17 cents a gallon or thereabouts) and Tang than pop. For a time there when I was a kid, a soft drink that didn’t require mixing was a novelty.
No doubt. I remember Tang. It was cool because the astronauts drank it. Lol. Yeah, we did a lot of kool-aid as well.
Tang was a special treat – I loved it. A step above Kool Aid.
Tried it several decades later and I was like WTF is this shit.
You don’t like tang?
Not if I can afford OJ.
Many a morning we’d have half milk and half water.
3 of us bastards
Truth:
The best Coca-cola is found at Waffle House.
Why do you hate your teeth?
I have never had a Coke at a waffle house, but I do know the best hash browns are found at a waffle house.
I love: Vernor’s; cream soda; and a root beer float. Hadn’t had a float in years, but made them a couple times this past summer.
Yeah, root beer floats are bomb. My mom said her and her friends would put cream in their cokes.
RB floats were what we got visiting grandma, so I agree
When we visited some distance relatives in Wisconsin, we got beer floats. We weren’t very old so doubt there was a lot of beer in them. Slept good though.
I make them every New Year’s eve with my daughters and sometimes on the 4th with them. The oldest leaves for college next year. I’ll probably have to explain to my youngest why I’m crying in my float.
Ample Hills Creamery’s Cherry-Lime Ricky Sorbet floated with ginger ale, or cherry soda, or ginger beer, or white wine, bonus points for adding a shot of Bourbon or rye.
1. Coke, soda, soft drink. Grew up in Cali but lots of old folks from family.
2. Originally no, only a special treat. When mom remarried, it was a staple.
3. Regular
4. McDonalds Coca-Cola
5. A & W Root Beer…but old school from their old drive ins. Reminds me of my grandma, which rootbeer was her favorite.
McDonald’s Coca-Cola
Good point. Just like beer, pop is better from the tap…assuming they have the mix set-up correctly. And McD’s nails it.
Ooooh, hadn’t thought about that. Last week when it was still warm and I’d been working outdoors I went and bought myself two large cups of diet. One wasn’t going to cut it.
Weird thing, but wife and I went to the store to get some stuff and she bought Sunkist Grape soda. OK, that is weird because the never buys that, she only drinks coke. I don’t drink soda at all, but I’m sitting here right now drinking a Sunkist Grape soda. That’s what I get for hanging out with all you freakazoids on this site.
OT, but is the Avennati news, news around here yet? What a smarmy bigmouth prick.
I always wanted them to come out with diet grape crush cause I like the orange stuff.
Diabetic wife says it used to exist in Canada.
I guess they deserve something good.
Ha! Ha!
/Nelson Muntz
Avennti news no real surprise right? Total douchnozzle.
It was a case of “I am not surprised”.
I will wait for compelling evidence to emerge before I deem him guilty. Nah, fuck him.
Yeah, it doesn’t really change my opinion of him.
His screaming, “She hit me first!” sounds a lot like a cop yelling, Stop resisting!”.
It reads to me like a whiny bitch. Disclaimers etc.
We can all agree that she deserves to be believed.
When he says “She hit me first”, he means “I hit her second.”.
Good catch.
1. Soft drinks
2. Yes.
3. Diet.
4. Diet Pepsi
5. Orange Fanta
1) It was pop growing up.
2) Yes. Saturday nights were movies, popcorn, and pop night. My parents would buy every fruit flavored pop, and we would mix them together.
3) I prefer regular pop. I drink diet dew.
4) Pepsi-cola.
5) Virgil’s Cream Soda and Root Beer. The orange and black cherry as good as well. https://www.virgils.com/
Growing up, Fanta Red Cream Soda was the very best thing you can get your hands on.
Amazon says they can ship me a twelve pack imported from Canada. Why the fuck is Coke making Fanta Red Cream Soda in Canada and not here in it birthplace?!?
Virgil’s Black Cherry Soda is pretty damn dope.
1. Pop or soda, more often pop.
2. Yes.
3. Prefer regular, drink diet.
4. RC Cola. It’s the revolutionary communist cola of the masses.
5. The old Aldi “Dr. Schnee” knockoff of Dr. Pepper.
1. Pop or soda
2.yes
3. Regular
4. Coke with cane sugar
5. rock and rye or green river
There was no Coca-Cola in the Soviet Union. However, Pepsi was bottled in the USSR since the 1970s. Pepsi was readily available in major Soviet cities but it was much harder to get in my home town. Either my parents would bring it from Leningrad where they drove once or twice a month to buy food unavailable in our town or I would go to a factory canteen where Pepsi bottles were on sale (though at a higher price than in grocery stores in Leningrad or Moscow).
Despite my childhood history with Pepsi, I actually prefer Coke now. Or Coke Zero, since at my age I cannot stay thin drinking sugary drinks.
Coke Zero is legit. I’m so glad it’s getting common in restaurants. So much bette than Diet Coke.
On Delta flights, I always get a Coke Zero and Woodford Reserve. Does not suck.
What’s the difference between “diet” and “zero”…?
Flavor. They both use Aspartame as the sweetener, so no Splenda.
They both come in caffeinated and decaff versions.
I think Coke cane up with Zero as a “better” tasting Diet Coke, but having learned from the New Coke disaster knew that they shouldn’t replace Diet Coke but offer an additional choice.
I guess I would have to try them to understand the difference. Always seemed to me that the artificial sweeter is the main reason diet tastes like crap – I don’t see how they could cover it up by simply altering the flavor.
Coke Zero used to be good, until they changed the formula and fucked up the flavor.
From wiki
FFS. Just pick a flavor and stick to it.
1) Coke (Oklahoma)
2) yes, but usually from 2 liter bottles, not cans
3) Diet now; regular is too sweet, but at a kid, I loved regular Dr Pepper in the glass bottle.
4) Coke Zero (usually with rum)
5) IBC root beer
1. Where you grew up, what did folks call carbonated soft drinks as a general type of beverage? Soda? Pop? Soda pop? Coke? Soft drinks? Something else?
Grew up in Southern IL, we called it Soda or Coke.
My wife, who grew up Northern IL calls it pop.
I suppose they call it pop here in Iowa
2. Were you allowed to drink it?
Yes, though at home more often than not we didn’t get real Coke but the knockoff brands.
My daughter(5) has yet to have any. She really does want to drink water. She also willingly eats broccoli. Her mother is a bad influence.
3. Do you prefer diet or regular?
Regular. I absolutely cannot stand the lingering taste of diet and will not drink it.
4. What’s your favorite cola?
Coke
5. What’s your overall favorite?
Coke
Not Adahn gave the winningest answer with Braum’s cherry limeade as best carbonated soda evah.
Not carbonated but I just remembered loganberry “drink” being very popular where I grew up… haven’t seen it in decades 🙁
Fun fact: http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/13450/braums-cherry-limeade.html
I’ll have to try it, thanks!
Although. I think the memories of a trip to Braums for a cherry limeade are at least 75% of the appeal…
I’m too buzzed to slog through the comments (How do y’all keep up?) but here goes –
1 – South and Southwest Florida, it was either soda or Coke but many years living in New Orleans has me calling them all cold drinks (Apocryphally, it stems from the historic lack of branded vending machines in the city and the ubiquity of the generic Cold Drinks signage units).
2 – Very rarely; iced tea is the proper non-alcoholic cold beverage.
3 – To me, all artificial sweeteners taste like poison (side kvetch – we LOVE our SodaStream™ but all of their syrups use artificial sweeteners and, therefore, taste like fucking poison.)
4 – Royal Crown
5 – Very tough call… Frank’s Black Cherry Wishniak, Ale-8-One, constant search for a better ginger ale.
So late to the party.
1. Growing up in Maryland, they’re called soda, but my dad and aunts called everything Coke, being southern transplants. So did I, in part because as a child it was either Coke or Dr. Pepper, and mostly Coke, so there wasn’t really a difference. My grandparents referred to them as “cold drinks”, like l0b0t.
2. Totally. I’d go through cases of soda in a week. Left to my own devices, I’d go through a 2-liter a day, which my grandmother would buy me as she was intent on spoiling the shit out of me.
3. Regular; diet tastes horrid. Although…we too have a Sodastream and hit the zero-calorie drinks pretty hard.
4. Cola? Cherry Coke.
5. Dr. Pepper, hands down. No competition.
I became a Pepper in the Army; it was the only cold drink I could keep in our barracks fridge that my squaddies wouldn’t drink.
My mom went through a Dr Pepper kick… possibly for the same reason. Gross.
Nice. When I was in my final years of high school, my mom kept Diet Pepsi in the house because she knew I would never drink those aspartame flavored abominations.
I miss the bottles of Dublin Dr Pepper.
The Dublin bottler still distributes a product called Dublin Black Cherry or Dublin Original – they taste very familiar.
1. It was Soda in Philly area. I remember a woman from Pittsburgh asking if I wanted a Pop and I wasn’t quite sure what she meant.
2. Carbonated bevs were an occasional until I was in mid-teens.
3. I drink diet bevs.
4. Actually like the new Mango and Lime Diet Cokes. Pepsi is too sweet for my taste.
5. Favorites would have to be Hires Root Beer and Chippy’s Cream (a local bottler in Philly suburbs). I remember having a Barks Root Beer on a trip but don’t remember where and haven’t ever seen it since.
Ah Barqs is common here (NYC) – good stuff.
No love for the purple drank?
Grape Fanta?
1) Soda
2) No
3) Diet now
4) Lemon Coke (Japanese soda is noticeable less sweet than US soda; they also still have the smaller openings on cans. I think sodas (and beers) have been ruined by the wide mouth openings. And thinner aluminum)
5) egg cream soda
1) Pop, though I can’t imagine saying it that way now
2) I lobbied for it in around 4th grade, then it became a household staple.
Chicago had a venerable beverage company called Lasser’s. You could go to their factory and they had dozens of exotic sodas, including Green River from the 50s which they never stopped making. We went twice and brought home a couple dozen bottles of strange flavored sodas. It is a fond childhood memory.
3) I don’t really drink it anymore, I maybe have a diet coke once a year
4) Berlin had the best cola, Fritz-Kola
5) GT’s Living Foods Pu-Erh root adaptogenic tea. It’s the pretentious, holistic, Marin county equivalent of root beer.
1. Racoritoare
2. Yes, although before 1990 it was hard to get without connections and if you did get it it was Pepsi in 330 ml glass bottles
3. Don’t drink them any more. Bad for you. I didn’t drink them much as a kid. Never liked the taste. I still struggle to get why people like the taste of Cola. Also I do not like sweet drinks in general.
4. I don’t like any
5. I probably drink on average 2 cans of Sprite a month when I need a pick me up in the morning. But am thinking of cutting down.
1. Where you grew up, what did folks call carbonated soft drinks as a general type of beverage? Soda? Pop? Soda pop? Coke? Soft drinks? Something else?
Pop, that being the correct, right, proper and true word. A soda is something that is made with fizzy water, ice cream, whipped cream and a cherry on top. My favorite was a little local brand, Spring Grove Pop from Spring Grove, Minnesoda. They had a great strawberry soda and the best root beer known to man.
2. Were you allowed to drink it?
Occasionally. Spring Grove pop was a dime for a 6-oz bottle, and when I was a little kid the name brands were (I think) 10-15 cents for a 10-ounce bottle. Pop was something of a treat, my Depression-era parents had grown up with it being something of a special occasion and never lost that attitude.
3. Do you prefer diet or regular?
Nowadays, diet. I’ve gotten used to it and now regular pop tastes like I’m drinking Karo syrup right out of the bottle. Yuck.
4. What’s your favorite cola?
Diet Coke.
5. What’s your overall favorite?
Diet Coke.
1. Coke. Everything was Coke. Led to a predictable little verbal dance when ordering at restaurants.
2. Yes, but I didn’t that much. Parents didn’t buy it often, so I didn’t drink it often.
3. Regular, but only with the cane sugar. All diet drinks taste like a chemical dump to me.
4. I generally don’t drink colas, but when I do I don’t have a preference between Coke and Pepsi.
5. Cheerwine. It’s a drink that originated in my hometown in NC, and it is the only soft drink I’ll have now. It is a cherry based drink, and it makes an incredible slushy or ice cream float.
1 – Tonic or Coke. Any cola was Coke, anything else was tonic growing up in Mass in the 70’s
2 – Somewhere in between. We always got tonics when we went out to eat which was honestly pretty regularly and usually when we were out doing activities which was also pretty common but we never had it in the house
3 – I prefer diet for Fruit based sodas (Orange, Grape, Lemon/Lime, Mtn Dew, etc.) but dislike it for other types (Root Beer, Cream Soda, Ginger Ale, etc.) and I generally hate Diet Colas
4 – I grew up in a Coca Cola family and that was probably all I ever had till I got married. These days I generally find Coke is my least favorite Cola because it is too dry, I prefer Pepsi and RC to it
5 – My go to drink is Diet Mtn Dew/Mellow Yellow although I do not drink anywhere near the amount of soda as I did when I was younger. I mostly drink Iced Tea, Mio and similar water enhancers, or Monster Energy Drinks these days. My favorite when I can actually get it would either be high end Root Beer, Cream Soda, or Orange Cream soda
1. Soda
2. I was never forbidden from drinking it, but we rarely had it stocked in the house. Perhaps because of that lack of exposure, I actively disliked fizzy drinks until I was in my teens. I still don’t drink it very often — I prefer iced tea.
3. I don’t drink enough soda to really have an opinion, but I usually go with regular.
4. Coke
5. I guess a good orange cream soda would be my favorite; usually I settle for a Coke or a Mountain Dew.